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The origins of criminal law

Nature Human Behaviour, 2020
Laws against wrongdoing may originate in justice intuitions that are part of universal human nature, according to the adaptationist theory of the origins of criminal law. This theory proposes that laws can be traced to neurocognitive mechanisms and ancestral selection pressures.
Daniel Sznycer, C. Patrick
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Who Controls Criminal Law? Racial Threat and the Adoption of State Sentencing Law, 1975 to 2012

, 2020
Threat theory argues that states toughen criminal laws to repress the competitive power of large minority groups. Yet, research on threat suffers from a poor understanding of why minority group size contributes to social control and a lack of evidence on
Scott W. Duxbury
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The Oxford Handbook of the Philosophy of the Criminal Law

, 2019
PREFACE 1. The Limits of the Criminal Law 2. Criminalizing Expression: Hate Speech and Obscenity 3. Blackmail 4. An Alleged Act Requirement in the Criminal Law 5. Attempts 6. The Philosophical Foundations of Complicity Law 7.
J. Deigh, David Dolinko
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The Realm of Criminal Law

, 2018
We are said to face a crisis of over-criminalization: our criminal law has become chaotic, unprincipled, and over-expansive. This book proposes a normative theory of criminal law, and of criminalization, that shows how criminal law could be ordered ...
R. Duff
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Criminal Law in the Age of the Administrative State

, 2018
What is the criminal law for? At its most elemental, criminal law secures the possibility of a shared life under stable and just public institutions.

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